Prosecutors withdraw motion for choosing restraint measure to President s Office dpty head Tatarov 1 min read
Prosecutors, in the trial on the election of a measure of restraint to deputy head of the President s Office Oleh Tatarov, announced the withdrawal of the motion in connection with the possible groundlessness of the suspicion notice presented.
At the beginning of the trial of the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) on Wednesday, a representative of the prosecution announced a statement by a new group of prosecutors with a request to withdraw the motion. We withdraw the motion to choose a measure of restraint in the form of detention . At the present time, we cannot say that the suspicion was justified, said a representative of the prosecution.
PGO lists reasons for withdrawal from HACC motion on choosing restraint measure for Tatarov 2 min read
The prosecutor of the Prosecutor General s Office (PGO) withdrew from the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC) a motion on the application of a restraint measure against Deputy Head of the President s Office Oleh Tatarov on the basis of the requirements of Article 185 of the Criminal Procedure Code of Ukraine and the revealed violation of the requirements of the Code, the Prosecutor General s Office told Interfax-Ukraine. Thus, by studying the materials attached to the motion, it was established that the actions of the suspects may contain the composition of another criminal corruption offense, which does not give the right to apply to the court with a motion on choosing a restraint measure in the form of detention, the Prosecutor General s Office said.
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Decision to change jurisdiction in case of bribing leadership of anti-corruption bodies to be challenged in Appeal Court – SAPO 3 min read
The decision of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv on transferring to another pretrial investigation body the case of an attempt to bribe the leadership of anti-corruption bodies in order to close criminal proceedings on suspicion of the former Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources will be appealed in the High Anti-Corruption Court (HACC), the press service of the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor s Office (SAPO) said. The decision was challenged in the Chamber of Appeals of the High Anti-Corruption Court on December 29, 2020, and in accordance with the information posted on the portal of the judiciary, the case is scheduled for appeal on December 30, 2020, the SAPO wrote on Facebook.
Education Minister Serhiy Shkarlet
KYIV – As the year ends, a moderate reshuffle in the Cabinet of Ministers and at the executive branch took place over the past 10 days in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s administration amid the political newcomer’s dwindling popularity 19 months into his term.
Oleh Tatarov, the president’s deputy chief of staff responsible for law enforcement, said on December 21 that he would recuse himself of certain duties in order to cooperate with investigators and avoid a conflict of interest in a large-scale corruption case in which he is a suspect.
Oleg Tatarov
After receiving a notice of suspicion for involvement in the alleged $2.8 million graft scheme from the National Anticorruption Bureau (NABU), Mr. Tatarov said at a briefing the same day that he had “temporarily transferred part of my powers to another employee of the president’s office in order to avoid manipulation.”